Bill Frezza is a 35-year veteran of the technology industry. After graduating from MIT with degrees in both science and engineering, Bill spent his early years at Bell Laboratories. Since then, he has worked as a product manager, salesman, marketer, entrepreneur, consultant, technology evangelist, and venture capitalist. Bill holds seven patents and has been investing in early-stage tech startups for the last 17 years as a partner in a venture capital firm. Since 2008, he has been writing weekly opinion columns for publications such as RealClearMarkets.com, Forbes.com, the Huffington Post and Bio-IT World and appeared regularly on TV and radio outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and WBAL. In 2011, he was a finalist for the Hoiles Prize for excellence in American journalism and in October 2013, he became the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 2013-2014 Warren T. Brookes Journalism Fellow. In January 2014, Bill began hosting RealClear Radio Hour airing Saturdays on Boston’s WXKS 1200AM & WJMN 94.5FM-HD2.

Prediction: Romney Crushes Obama In Presidential Election Blowout

Put this column in a drawer and take it out on the date below. Let me know how many of these predictions I got right.

November 7, 2012 – It may not be morning in America, but be thankful that it’s not the dawn of the living dead. With civil war breaking out in Greece, Spain in chaos as it seeks to exit the euro, California preparing to file bankruptcy following the failure of Governor Jerry Brown’s budget referendum, and Portland, Oakland, and Seattle busy clearing the rubble from the devastation of their Occupy fires, the American electorate has finally said “Enough!”

The great experiment in “progressive” democracy is over. Convincing a majority of American voters that they can live at someone else’s expense proved a bridge too far, as those same voters watched the social democracies of Europe unravel. When presented with a choice between two presidential candidates with diametrically opposed visions of the proper role of government, Americans chose to step back from the abyss.

To no one’s surprise, the campaign was ugly. As each successive poll revealed incumbent President Barack Obama slipping further behind, the Obama camp’s attacks grew ever shriller. Class, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexuality—no variant of identity politics was left untapped in what turned out to be a futile attempt to divide the electorate into warring camps and shift the debate to anything besides the deteriorating economy and the cataclysmic national debt.

The Supreme Court’s evisceration of Obamacare—the president’s signature “accomplishment”—set the tone for a long, hot summer. The Occupy movement’s escalating campaign of violence, which culminated in major street battles at both national conventions, did little to help Obama’s cause. Persistently high unemployment, coupled with an inflationary uptick as the Federal Reserve made a desperate attempt to launch yet another round of “quantitative easing,” reminded too many voters of life under Jimmy Carter.

The bankruptcy of A123, Fisker Automotive, and a half dozen more solar and biofuel ventures that received hundreds of millions in tax dollars rang the death knell for Obama’s green energy policies. The final nail into the coffin of the failed Obama presidency came from Europe, as Germany and France finally jettisoned the PIIGS to save the Eurozone core—but not soon enough to avert a deep recession in Europe and a 20% decline in U.S. stock markets.

While the charisma-challenged Mitt Romney never managed to ignite the Republican base—which remains suspicious of his conservative bona fides—the right still managed to close ranks behind their man, largely out of fear of what a second Obama term would mean for America.

Mitt stuck to the economic high ground. Meanwhile, his campaign staff and cloud of well-funded SuperPAC proxies proved adept at throwing counter-punches, responding to every below-the-belt political assault launched Mitt’s way with well-prepared counter narratives, widely disseminated across a network of right-leaning bloggers, Facebook activists, and radio talk show personalities.

Wading through the maelstrom, the Romney campaign remained focused on selling the idea that what the nation most needed was a return to economic sanity. Mitt’s public persona, never well matched with the vampire capitalist, out-of-touch plutocrat, Mormon underwear-wearing weirdo opponents made him out to be, finally gelled into one of mature competence that reassured voters that he was the man to help fix the mess we’ve gotten into.

Throughout it all, the mainstream media never found its legs. Always a step behind the Twitter blitzkriegs unleashed by millions of freelance citizen reporters, YouTube videographers, amateur pundits, and independent campaign organizations, professional journalists and the editors that issue their marching orders found that the day’s news had already been framed by the time they got out of bed each morning.

What made defeat all the more devastating for yesteryear’s media moguls was the decision to throw away the last shred of their purported objectivity by going all-in behind their candidate. Their failure to sway the election made it clear that a handful of White House Correspondents’ Dinner elites in New York, Washington, and Hollywood have lost their power to shape public opinion.

As the pending electoral deluge drew near and the liberal commentariat began turning on Obama, the American public was treated to the sorry spectacle of rats deserting a sinking ship as political insiders jockeyed to land the first big advance for a tell-all book dissecting the meltdown. By the time Election Day rolled around, it was all over but the counting.

The path ahead will be long and hard, and the rejuvenated Republican Party and its new president have yet to give a sign as to how they plan to tackle the entitlement tsunami that threatens to drown us all. But with veto proof majorities in both the House and Senate, they now own the problem.

You’ve just signed up for the hardest job on the planet, Mitt. And this time, if you can’t figure out how to turn things around, you can’t fire sale the wreckage and hope the rest of your portfolio makes up for the loss. The eyes of the world are upon you. This is democracy’s last chance. Don’t blow it.

Bill Frezza is a Boston-based writer and venture capitalist. You can find all of his columns, TV, and radio interviews here. If you would like to have his columns delivered to you by email, click here or follow him on Twitter @BillFrezza.

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Exactly! Obamabots, Disenfranchised Clintonites, and just Amnestified Illegal Aliens want to re-elect a president who: > Continued 2 Bush Wars, and added a few others in the Middle East and soon Africa, then a few months before the election rushed to get out of Iraq. > Continued Bush Bankster Wall Street Multinational Billionaire Bailouts, and gave out Trillions more to Detroit; Tax Dodging, Job Exporting Immelt’s G.E.; Big Bundler’s Solyndra and a bakers dozen other Solar Failures; and soon to be Trillions to Big Pharma, Multinational Sick Care (as liberals call it). > Continued Bush’s “Unconstitutional” Patriot Act and expanded it with domestic spying, secret arrest, disappearance, torture, and assassination of American citizens with 2012 NDAA; while DHS/Justice Run Guns to Mexican Drug Gangs then starts to buy up 1.5 BILLION Rounds of Hollow Point Ammunition, long banned from military use by international treaties, while Big Sis Napolitano and Big Bro Holder won’t say why or for who.

Lol, this article is embarrassing for Forbes. This is neither news nor opinion, just some idiots fantasy. I think I’ll write an article for Sports Illustrated about how my college team won the national championship next year. People will love to read that.

You must have missed reading the beginning where he explained the purpose of the article. Also, you are right that this isn’t “news” as you said, but it IS “opinion” even though you obviously disagree with it. And that’s the beauty of free speech.

Agreed, and what’s particularly disturbing about it is that it seems like the country going in a tailspin is part of Frezza’s fantasy. He hopes that Occupy will suddenly turn violent and that Obama will become unprecedentedly nasty in his campaigning, because that will delegitimzie ideas he doesn’t believe in.

I do not support Forbes making predictions. This election should be determined by the American people not the news papers, magazines or any other form of the media. I am sick and tired of the Media favoring candidates. Be it Obama, Romney or anybody else. Just report the news, and keep your personal opinions to yourself. Period.